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Slashdot
Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1228217
[0]Rhyas writes "Seems as though Lexmark has decided it [1]wants all
the pie when it comes to the printing world, as they are suing a
company that does reselling of chips that allow third party toner
cartridges to work in Lexmark printers. Cindy Cohn, an attorney at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, said she expected more cases like the
one brought by Lexmark. 'We have long said that the DMCA's potential
use as an anti-competitive tool has been great,' Cohn said. 'Now we're
seeing it happen.'" The European Union is [2]taking action against the
practice of embedding chips in printer cartridges which make it
difficult for third parties to sell refills.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html
2. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2127877,00.html
Flaw Found iIn Ethernet Device Drivers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0213203
Licensed2Hack writes "Security researchers have discovered a serious
vulnerability that may be present in many Ethernet device drivers that
is causing the devices to broadcast sensitive information over
networks. Seems the device driver writers couldn't be bothered with a
memset() call. [0]Eweek has their typical (puffy, low on tech details)
take on it [1]here. Since they don't specify the OS, I'm assuming these
are drivers for Windows."
Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/
1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,809353,00.asp?kc=EWTH102099TX1K0100487
Myst MMOG Details Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0113206
Ubi Soft and Cyan announced the title for their upcoming online game.
[0] Uru: Online Ages Beyond Myst , developed by Cyan Worlds, Inc., is
slated for release late this year. From the [1]press release, "Uru will
take advantage of broadband to deliver a continually updated, immersive
environment and storyline, with content that grows, changes and evolves
constantly. It will also be the first persistent world to support
real-time voice communication." Sounds like a different road than
online games like The Sims Online and Star Wars Galaxies are taking,
with the entertainment consisting in exploration and storyline rather
than in player status and achievement.
Links
0. http://uru.ubi.com/
1. http://uru.ubi.com/press.php
The Alternative Party 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1848246
mkoskimi writes "The fourth consecutive [0]Alternative Party is
arranged this weekend (Friday to Sunday) in Helsinki, Finland. As
before, we expect up to 300 people joining this round-the-clock event,
bringing along all kinds of weird machines (previous times have seen a
[1] Magnavox Odyssey, [2] a M6800 Evaluation Kit II and the Vectrex).
It's not yet another retro computer show though; there will be [3]
Competitions, [4]artists and our guest of honour, [5]Jeff Minter! There
be llamas here..."
Links
0. http://www.altparty.org/
1. http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~ateras/party/altparty/odyssey.jpg
2.
http://pp.fishpool.com/~stibe/world/photos_events_demoparties_2alt_computers.html
3. http://www.altparty.org/?p=competitions
4. http://www.altparty.org/?p=artists
5. http://www.altparty.org/?p=jeffminter
More 3D Printer News
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0050243
[0]tallackn writes "The [1]New Scientist website has an [2]article that
tells of a 3D gadget printer which will allow fully assembled electric
and electronic gadgets to be printed in one go. 'The trick is to print
layer upon layer of conducting and semiconducting polymers in such a
way that the circuitry the device requires is built up as part of the
bodywork.' When the technique is perfected, devices such as light
bulbs, radios, remote controls, mobile phones and toys will be spat out
as individual fully functional systems without expensive and
labour-intensive production on an assembly line."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.newscientist.com/
2. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993238
Low Profile Satellite TV Antennas for Vehicles
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/0046257
[0]Brian Mattis writes "CNN is [1]reporting a new antenna system that
allows SUV's, minivans and cars to receive DirecTV video and audio
programming on the road. Future plans call for internet access as well.
This could be a nail in the coffin of Sirius and XM radio."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/08/tv.car.reut/index.html
Customer-owned Networks: ZapMail & Telecoms
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2136254
sasha writes "[0]Here's a good article that describes how we, the
consumers, can play the role of competitors to the vendors of products
and services we buy. The author draws a parallel between FedEx's
ZapMail failure and current situation with VoIP and WiFi in regard to
the phone companies."
Links
0. http://shirky.com/writings/zapmail.html
You Can't Link Here
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2223214
An anonymous reader writes "Last year several news sources reported
about the website [0]dontlink.com from David Sorkin, associate
professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. His
website fights 'stupid linking policies' that attempt to impose
restrictions on other sites that link to them. Now a German law student
joined the fight against linking restrictions and starts getting media
attention in Germany. His list of [1]stupid German linking policies can
be found at the website [2]Links & Law. Contrary to the model of
dontlink.com, the German site refrains from linking to companies that
prohibit linking without their consent. The site only states the URL of
the websites with the linking policies. The page with the linking
policies is in German, but the rest of the website is in English and
covers many legal aspects of linking."
Links
0. http://www.dontlink.com
1. http://www.linksandlaw.com/linkingcases-linkingpolicies-beispiele.htm
2. http://www.linksandlaw.com/
Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/0323237
VernonNemitz asks: "Back in 1984 a patent was granted for [0]silicon
chip micro rectennas, which would convert visible photons into
electricity in the same way that ordinary rectennas convert microwaves
into electricity, at perhaps 70% or greater efficiency. Nobody could
make such solar cells back in 1984, but we certainly can today, with
sizes of antennas that would capture everything from infrared to the
edges of UV -- and the patent has expired. So, where are they?"
Currently the most popular type of [1]solar technology is
[2]photovoltaics, however PV technology only has an efficiency of about
[3]7-17%. With the potential gains claimed by the technology in the
cited patent, has anyone even tried to build one of these units to see
if it can live up to the given promise, or at least prove to be a
technology than we should be exploring?
Links
0.
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,445,050WKU.&OS=PN/4,445,050&RS=PN/4,445,050
1. http://www.eren.doe.gov/solar.html
2. http://www.eren.doe.gov/pv/
3. http://www.eren.doe.gov/pv/pvmenu.cgi?site=pv&idx=1&body=aboutpv.html
Blogging With Camera Phones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2034213
Zastrossi writes "The Register [0]reports that [1]NewBay Software, "is
to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone
users to create and maintain Weblogs or 'blogs' using only their
phones." Sounds like a pretty sound idea, particularly in that they're
selling to the telcos as opposed to consumers. SMS was one revenue
source for mobile providers, will camera phones become another?"
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/28773.html
1. http://www.newbay.com/
Freshmeat
Ampoliros 3.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108848/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web
applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface.
It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment
system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast
deployment of Web solutions.
Apple Safari 1.0 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108821/
Safari is Apple's Web browser based on the Konqueror rendering engine.
It offers outstanding performance, rendering even the most complex of
pages at high speed. It uses advanced Mac OS X interface technologies
to offer an all-new, much easier view of the Web, and features an
advanced bookmark manager, built-in Google search, seamless downloads,
and a pop-up blocking mechanism.
BlockIt 1.2.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108824/
BlockIt monitors the Snort alert file and creates IPtables rules. This
version is only for Linux (later versions will include FreeBSD and
OpenBSD support). BlockIt has built-in CIDR support for multiple target
IPs and whitelist support. Additional features include MySQL logging
and email logging.
Calculating Pi 2002-01-07 (Archimedes)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108770/
ProjectPi is a project to calculate the mathematical constant Pi
through various methods.
CDPlayer.app 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108865/
CDPlayer.app is a small CD Audio Player for GNUstep.
cgi-exec 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108877/
cgi-exec preprocesses data from an HTML form and redirects the data to
a CGI script specified in a database located next to cgi-exec. It
acquires the input from the browser, regardless of method; decodes the
input into plain text; places that input into environmental variables
corresponding to the fieldnames designated in the HTML form; searches a
database to determine the name of the script to be executed to process
the form data; spawns the script, after appropriate headers are
emitted; and prints out footers after the return of the script. The
environment is protected by disallowing the overwriting of existing
variables.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2003-01-08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108825/
Diet Monger Ass Kicker is a program for designing diets to your own
specifications. It allows nutrients and foods to be sorted and foods to
be filtered by categories such as the food groups, raw only, no salt,
or not dried. Calculations are made according to specified minimums and
maximums, and using data from the USDA database.
dsync 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108817/
dsync synchronizes contents of two directories. It remembers state
between invocations and tries to track and reconcile changes between
successive runs and between independent synchronizations of multiple
targets, such as local and backup, or local and remote.
fwanalog 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108869/
fwanalog is a shell script that parses and summarizes firewall
logfiles. It understands logs from ipf (xBSD, Solaris), OpenBSD 3.x pf,
Linux 2.2 ipchains, Linux 2.4 iptables, and some routers and firewalls
(Linksys, Cisco). The excellent log analysis program, Analog (which is
also free software), is used to create the reports.
Genuts Framework 0.4b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108844/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game
development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for
sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and
collision detection.
gqueue 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108858/
gQueue is a Gnome2 frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS. It
shows all jobs in printing queues and can remove jobs.
grafist 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108849/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth
utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev
file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it
executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a
summary for each file. Grafist provides localization support for 24
languages.
gtkmm 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108889/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular
GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++
programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework.
Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by
inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly
create complex user interfaces.
Header and Envelope rewrite mini-HOWTO 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108819/
The Header and Envelope rewrite mini-HOWTO explains how to rewrite your
from address differently in the mail header and the mail envelope. This
may be necessary, for example, if your ISP requires you to send mail
with one address, but you are subscribed to mailing lists with a
different address, or want others to see a forwarding address instead
of your ISP's address.
Hydra 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108875/
Hydra is a high performance multi-threaded HTTP server. Unlike
traditional multi-threaded Web servers, it uses a constant,
configurable pool of threads, and each thread can handle several
connections by multiplexing the connections. This is even better than
non-blocking servers, since Hydra will use every available CPU in a
multi-CPU system. It also has features such as host-based virtual
hosting, HTTP 1.1 features, CGI 1.1, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and more.
IceDock 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108867/
IceDock provides dockapp support for IceWM and few other window
managers.
IceWM 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108835/
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and
consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and
Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
iftop 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108843/
iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified
interface, listed by host pairs.
iHook 0.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108874/
iHook is a graphical frontend for any command-line executable. It gives
scripts a pleasant Aqua face, and allows script writers to provide
graphical feedback without having to learn one of the higher APIs
available for Mac OS X. iHook accomplishes this through its ability to
understand a set of directives. When a script writes an iHook Directive
to stdout, iHook will modify its own interface based on the content of
the Directive. In this way, a simple shell script can have an Aqua
interface, complete with a progress bar and drawer. When launched in
the Finder, iHook prompts the user to choose a script to run; iHook
also accepts file drops on its icon, and will attempt to run the
dropped file. When no user is logged in, iHook tries to execute
/etc/logout.hook. This makes iHook highly useful as an interface for
Mac OS X LogoutHooks.
iiitAccessServer 1.0-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108831/
The iiitAccessServer is a rule-based enterprise authorization system
written in Java. It works as a server and is usable with any
programming language able to open a socket. The server fetches its data
from LDAP and stores it in optimized form in one or more MySQL
databases, used as a 2nd-level cache to achieve high performance. The
entire system is designed to scalable and fault- tolerant.
imgSeek 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108815/
imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an
image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough
sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply
draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for
you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also create
slideshows, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including
EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.
Ivy software bus 1.2.3 (Java)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108842/
Ivy is a simple protocol and a set of libraries that allows
applications to broadcast information through text messages, with a
subscription mechanism based on regular expressions.
j 0.18.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108879/
J is a multifile, multiwindow programmer's editor written entirely in
Java. It features syntax highlighting for Java, C, C++, XML, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Verilog, and
VHDL, automatic indentation, directory buffers, regular expressions,
multifile find and replace, autosave and crash recovery, undo/redo, and
FTP/HTTP support. All keyboard mappings can be customized. Themes may
be used to customize the editor's appearance.
Java Parser/Parser Generator 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108880/
Java Parser is a Java-based parser and parser generator
package/utility. The generator builds parsers from straight EBNF
notation files.
JChemPaint 1.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108861/
JChemPaint is a Java 2 program for drawing 2D chemical structures like
those found in most chemistry textbooks.
Jecomputerisjelot.nl automated login script 1.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108757/
This script automates the login for the Web page jecomputerisjelot.nl.
This is an online game from a dutch company to win 5000 Euro. The
company draws 1 winner each day from the subscribed users. Every day
you have to login to check if you are a winner. If you do not login and
you are a winner that day you will recieve nothing. This script can be
put in your crontab to do it for you. It's pretty straightforward, but
you will have to register online to get the desired login credentials.
KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108851/
KDevelop is an integrated development environment which makes the
creation and development of GNU Standard Applications an easy task even
for beginners. Highlights of the current release are: an application
wizard for easy creation of KDE 2&3, Qt 2&3, GNOME, and
terminal C/C++ projects, full project management, a syntax-highlighting
editor, an integrated dialogeditor for the Qt/KDE GUI libraries, an
internal debugger, a full-featured classbrowser with classtools, CVS
support, an integrated HTML-based helpsystem offering manuals and
class-references, and extensive search mechanisms to browse sources and
documentation.
KySMS 0.6pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108886/
KySMS is yet another graphical frontend for smssend. This one has a
phonebook with groups.
libchipcard 0.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108870/
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by
the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip
cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested
with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
libexif 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108856/
Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with
extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library
allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.
Libxml 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108882/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The
library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems,
etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml
implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages,
including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, RFC 2396,
XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In
most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a
relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the
following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP
client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas
is in progress.
Lush 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108823/
Lush is an object-oriented Lisp interpreter and compiler with a
seamless interface to C, a vector, matrix, and tensor engine, a huge
numerical library, a GUI toolkit, and bindings to GSL, SDL, OpenGL,
V4l, and others. It is an alternative to Matlab, Python, and Scheme,
and allows Lisp and C to be mixed within a single function, providing a
unique combination of flexibility and efficiency. Lush is an ideal
programming language for researchers in AI, computer vision, audio,
image, and video processing, machine learning, statistics,
bio-informatics, as well as for interactive graphics and multimedia
applications.
lvs-kiss 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108837/
lvs-kiss is designed to make load-balancing with fail-over simpler. The
primary design-goal is for you to get load-balancing with fail-over up
and running withing an hour or so. The secondary design goal is to be
able to make this software as flexible as possible. Embedding of perl
in configuration-files and load-balancing with custom made tests should
be possible without too much hassle.
Math::Gsl 0.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108857/
Math::Gsl is a Perl module that implements parts of the GNU Scientific
Library.
MyClient 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108853/
MyClient is a simple and clean Web client interface for the MySQL
database. It features multiple query windows, one button table
descriptions, query save and load, and table data dumping. It is not a
full featured administration tool, but rather a quick and easy query
interface designed for those who are looking for a Web-based
implementation of the command line interface.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108820/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs/libraries.
Netscape Address Book Recovery 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108871/
Netscape Address Book Recovery is a tool get your information out of a
corrupted Netscape address book. This program attempts to get as much
information out of the address book as is possible. But as with all
programs of this type, it will always need to change to keep track of
the different ways in which the address book can be corrupted. It can
output .csv (Comma Separated Values) or .ldi (LDAP Date Interchange
Format) files. If you output to .csv files you will lose all mailing
list information.
NSCL SpecTcl 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108846/
SpecTcl is a framework for data analysis of nuclear physics event data.
It is delivered both as a canned program and as a C++ class framework.
It is run-time extensible via the Tcl/Tk scripting language. The class
framework allows the program to be easily extended, and class wrappers
for Tcl/Tk make it trivial to add to the SpecTcl command set as well as
to expose Tcl/Tk variables to user code.
oRTP 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108863/
oRTP is a library implementing the Real-time Transport Protocol
(RFC1889), written in C. Based on glib, it should be portable to all
Unix species. It includes a packet scheduler, blocking and non blocking
I/O, and multiplexing I/O so that several RTP sessions can be managed
by a single thread.
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108845/
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able
to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a
real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular
based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for
modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access
to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems
where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to
integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different
email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services.
It can also be used as part of a firewall.
Perl webmail 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108816/
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server
that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward,
delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local
mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for
sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and
calendar notes.
phpOpenTracker 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108827/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site
traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that,
either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two
lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web
site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of
Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and
perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your
visitors' click paths).
Renaissance 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108840/
GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user interfaces (that
is, the windows in your application and the buttons, boxes, text
fields, etc. in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using
an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface.
RoboRally Board Editor 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108828/
RoboRally Board editor is a Java utility for creating boards för
the board game, RoboRally.
Sablotron 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108834/
Sablotron is an XML toolkit which implements XSLT, DOM, and XPath.
Sablotron is written in C++, and it can be used from C, Perl, Python,
PHP, ObjectPascal, and via a command line interface. It supports the
XSLT 1.0, XPath 1.0, and DOM Level 2 W3C specifications. It is designed
to be as compact and portable as possible, and is maintained as an Open
Source project by Ginger Alliance.
Smooth GTK2 Theme Engine 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108807/
Smooth GTK2 Theme Engine is a simple GTK2 theme engine intended to be
smooth, fast, and highly configurable, to the point that it could
eventually be capable of mimicking most, if not all, major theme
engines to high degree of acuracy, while still retaining a small
footprint. It is in an early stage of development, so it is buggy,
incomplete, and still missing many features.
Storypad 3.1.0b25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108860/
Storypad is a multiplatform tool for displaying and extracting text and
images from PDF files. It includes a number of algorithms to preserve
the text structure and to allow the user to group text objects
together. Images are extracted in their raw and clipped forms and raw
CMYK data can be extracted (or an RGB approximation). Thumbnails of
pages can be generated. It includes a GUI client which displays the PDF
and allows easy configuration. An option to export data to
MySQL/Postgre is included. The free technology preview is fully
functional and support options are available.
streamixer 1.19.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108864/
streamixer contains an audio stream mixer server, tools for monitoring
and feeding the server, and a stream resampling tool with various
different interpolation models.
SWFTools 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108878/
SWFTools is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This
includes a merging tool (swfcombine), an extracting tool (swfextract),
PDF/JPEG/PNG/AVI/WAV to SWF converters (pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf,
avi2swf, and wav2swf), a text parsing tool (swfstrings), an SWF parser
(swfdump), and a library for writing and reading SWFs (rfxswflib).
Tanne 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108836/
tanne is a small, secure session-management solution for HTTP. It
replaces common sessions with a system consisting of PIN and TANs, well
known from online banking. It's main purpose is to enable programmers
of Web applications to have real secure sessions without cookies or
session-ids.
Tcpreplay 1.4.beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108822/
Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured
network traffic in pcap (tcpdump) format. It can be used to test a
variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS.
The Plastic File System 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108826/
The Plastic File System is an LD_PRELOAD module for manipulating what
the file system looks like for programs. This allows virtual file
systems to exist in user space, without kernel hacks or modules.
Typing Trainer 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108884/
Typing Trainer is designed for exercising typing speed and typing
accuracy, by providing an environment to type in a copy of an original
text within a specific time period. It also has the ability to store
the results of such an exercise for exam purposes.
Webcpp 0.8.0 pre1 (Preview)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108839/
Webcpp (Web C Plus Plus) is a command line utility that takes your
source code and converts it into an HTML file, using a fully
customizable syntax highlighting engine and stylesheets. Webcpp
currently supports Ada95, Assembler, ASP, Basic, C, C#, C++, Cg, CLIPS,
DOS Batch, EMF, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Markup, Modula2,
Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Power Builder, Python, RenderMan, Ruby,
SQL, Tcl, Unix shell, and VHDL highlighting.
X File Explorer 0.39 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108868/
X File Explorer (Xfe) is a filemanager for X. It is based on the
popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander. Xfe is desktop independent
and is written with the C++ Fox Toolkit. It looks similar to Windows
Commander or MS-Explorer, and is very fast and simple. It features file
associations, the ability to mount/umount devices, a directory tree for
quickly changing directories, the ability to change file attributes,
automatic registry saving, the ability to view/create/extract
compressed archives, and much more.
X Northern Captain 5.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108866/
X Northern Captain is a file manager for X Windows. XNC has the same
ideology as Norton Commander but also many additional and specific
functions including a Virtual File System with support for tar, zip,
rar, rpm, deb, bzip2, and lha archives, FTP support, built-in
xterminal, viewer for JPEG, GIF, BMP, TGA, XPM, and XBM formats, an
editor, users menu, extensions association, bookmarks for frequently
used directories, and more.
xfax 2.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108891/
xfax is a powerful X fax program, including a faxviewer, a faxprinter,
and a faxconverter from various formats to fax G3 format. It supports
front page generation in 3 modes (ASCII, Postscript, TeX/LaTeX), and
enables users to forward a list of documents of various types (ASCII
files, TeX/LateX files, PostScript or PDF documents, images, etc.).
Xfax requires the Xforms library and works well in combination with the
efix/efax tools.
XMLTV 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108833/
XMLTV is a set of programs to process TV (tvguide) listings and manage
your TV viewing. It stores the listings in an XML-based format and most
of the programs are filters which read and/or write XML. There are
backends to download TV listings for Canada, the USA, Britain, Austria,
Germany, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, and Finland. It also includes
some filter tools to sort, grep, print, and munge listings, and two
end-user programs to plan a week's TV viewing.
xmlwrapp 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108818/
xmlwrapp is a modern C++ library for working with XML data. It provides
a simple and easy to use interface for the very powerful libxml2 XML
parser.
XMMS Autoplay Plugin 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108847/
XMMS Autoplay Plugin is a small plugin for XMMS that starts playing on
starting XMMS. It can start at the beginning of the playlist, at a
random position, or at the position the last XMMS session stopped.
XName 2.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108854/
XName is an engine for providing modular Web-managed DNS hosting. It
features a viewer for DNS server logs, a synthetic view of all of a
user's zones, and much more. It supports both primary and secondary
zones.
XPlanner 0.3.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108855/
XPlanner is a Web-based project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme
Programming (XP) teams. XPlanner is implemented using Java, JSP, and
Struts. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Yet Another Free RAYtracer 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108830/
yafray is yet another free raytracer, still in development. Some
features like caustics, filters, depth of field, etc. are implemented.
Zorum 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108832/
Zorum is an easy-to-install Web-based forum, message board, or bulletin
board. It requires a MySQL database, and the PHP4 script module.
Features include an easy Web-based install, embedded administration, a
style manager, personalization, threaded and linear views, moderators,
password reminder, post blocking rules, bb code, mark unread messages,
and much more.
Newsforge Reports
Training available for new commercial Security-Enhanced Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/07/2134248
- by Tina Gasperson - The Open Source Development Group (OSDgroup) has
developed courseware for Security Enhanced Linux, the National Security
Agency's beefed-up Linux distribution that is also being developed as a
commercial distribution by Westcam Consultants.
DVD Wars - Hollywood loses a round in an ongoing battle
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/176226
- By Jeff Elkins - The Hollywood Hegemony has lost a key battle in
their ongoing effort to suppress the rights of consumers worldwide.
Norwegian teenager Jon Johansen has been acquitted of charges that he
committed a crime when he created the DeCSS program that allowed him to
watch legally purchased DVDs on his Linux computer.
The business of making Linux easier to use
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/04/1952245
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The comparative complexity of
administering Linux servers is a huge adoption barrier for small
companies that can't afford to hire their own sysadmins and don't want
to rely on outside consultants for all configuration changes or routine
server maintenance. NetMAX is building a business by -- as they put it
-- "Simplifying Linux Servers." Their "underlying technologies" are
Open Source, they say, but their GUI admin ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Yoper: 'Your Own Operating System' revealed
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1037256
Anonymous Reader writes "DesktopLinux.com speaks with Andreas Girardet,
Founder of Yoper, a New Zealand-based Linux distribution."
SystemImager 3.0 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1037226
Anonymous Reader writes "SystemImager is distribution independent and
makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution,
content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating
system updates to your network of Linux machines."
Rewindable Desktop, part II
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1036248
Anonymous Reader writes "In the second installment of a continuing
series, Bowie J. Poag describes the architecture involved in his
conception of a "rewindable desktop" that would allow users to return
to previous places and configurations."
IBM developerWorks Live!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1036205
An anonymous coward writes "IBM developerWorks Live! is the premier
technical event of the year. It will be held April 9 - 12, 2003 in New
Orleans."
samba eXPerience 2003 - call for papers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1035213
SerNet writes "On April 14th and 15th 2003 developers and users will
meet again in Göttingen, Germany at the second international SAMBA
conference, the "samba eXPerience 2003".
Red Hat Appoints Executive VP
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2333244
Open source and Linux provider Red Hat Inc. (RedHat.com) announced on
Wednesday that it has appointed Tom Rabon as the company's executive
vice president of corporate affairs.
Cell Phone Makers Call on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/2330242
The Linux operating system has made the jump from computer servers to
handheld computers, digital video recorders, and wristwatches and soon
may find a home inside your cellular telephone.
Linux on government servers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1839215
Several national governments (e.g., Singapore, Taiwan, and Germany)
have stated their intent to move their server architectures to Linux
from Windows.
Linux gears up to challenge Windows on desktop
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1838215
Bought the latest whiz-bang personal computer, but don't know what to
do with your older, fully functional PC? One option would be to try
breathing new life into it with Linux, the software standard that is
presenting itself as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating
system.
Linux heads for cell phones
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1837214
NEC Corp. said today that it's working on the development of
Linux-based cell phones with MontaVista Software Inc., and an executive
of the Sunnyvale, Calif., software company said it's in talks with
other major cellular handset makers on similar projects.
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Sourceforge
First drop of operational IPoIB
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241412
Now posted in the "InfiniBand" files area is the latest drop of the
SourceForge.net InfiniBand project stack. With this drop, IPoIB (IP
over InfiniBand) is now functional with the Profile B HCA from
Mellanox. (At present, the stack only runs via the HCA driver supplied
by Mellanox, included in their DDK.) Note: At this time the Mellanox
driver is obtained from Mellanox directly via their DDK (and is not
posted to this project). Other items of interest in this drop include:
* Multicast support (in both IPoIB and OpenSM) - single switch fabrics
only at this time * CM support (both kernel and usermode) * OpenSM
supports standard SA queries (see the "Subnet Management" sub-project
at http://infiniband.sourceforge.net/ for a complete list of the
queries supported) * Complete SMI/GSI implementation (GSI now includes
support for RMPP) * OpenSM generates a subnet config file which can be
read by the Mellanox GUI in order to display the fabric See additional
details in the release notes posted with the drop. Note: This code is
not yet in the project CVS repository! Once CVS has been updated, an
announcement will be sent out. So, for now, the only place to get this
latest code is from the tarball.
Trebuchet Tk for Windows re-released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241757
The windows installer for the Trebuchet Tk MU* client has been updated
with the latest scripts, fixing the Win2K and XP windows problems.
Trebuchet is a 100% TCL cross-platform GUI MUD client, designed to be
powerful and extensible, yet easy to use. This client also has support
for advanced features, such as SSL encryption, and allowing the server
to request custom GUI dialogs.
Linux for 68k Macintoshes - 2.2.23 Kernel release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241740
A kernel updated to 2.2.23 has now been released. Mac-specific changes
are improved Ethernet device support. This project is a developmental
branch off the Linux/m68k port, supporting older Macintoshes with a
Motorola 68020, 030, or 040 CPU and an MMU. Includes some II* and most
LC/Centris/Quadra/Performa *** machines. Tested Ethernet devices are:
For Sonic driver: Onboard Sonic on Quadra 950, Quadra 650 and Quadra
650. Macintosh Ethernet LC PN 820-0443-C Apple Ethernet LC Twisted Pair
PN 820-0532-A For SMC driver: Asante MacCon CS PN 09-00098-12 API
Engineering LC PDS Spectrum Engineering PDS PN 7ET-L10 Asante
AsanteFAST 10/100 Nubus PN 09-00096-01 For Mac8390 driver: Asante
MacCon+610 for 610 PDS slot Asante MCiLC PN 09-00062-03 Asante MCNB PN
09-00061-02 Asante MC3NB 4 different versions PN 09-0030x-52 Apple
Ethernet PN 820-0207A Farallon Ethernet A-Series 590a-TP Farallon
Ethernet A-Series (different than above no PN) Farallon EtherMac II-TP
590a-TP Farallon EtherWave 890-TP Farallon EtherMac LC-TP 592a-TP
Cabletron DNI PN 9000343-05 DaynaPort E/II-T PN 00802-2001-000 Kinetics
EtherPort IIN HM LC PDS The following cards are known not to work with
the existing drivers: DaynaPort E/Si 30 - should use sonic driver,
can't locate sonic register address. Apple Ethernet NB Twisted Pair PN
820-0511A - should use sonic driver, can't locate sonic register
address. Farallon Commslot Card - Should use SMC driver but contains no
Nubus ROM and I can't locate the address of the SMC registers.
DaynaPort E/CS-T (Crystal) - Should use the mac89x0 driver, but it
can't locate the registers.
Licq 1.2.3 now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241732
Licq 1.2.3 has just been released. This version has better support for
the ICQ protocol and is more stable than Licq 1.2.0a. All users are
urged to upgrade to enjoy the improved stability and new features. Licq
is an ICQ clone written fully in C++. It uses an extensive plugin
system to manage many different functions. The main GUI is written
using the Qt widget set.
Gnome-python (PyGTK and PyGNOME) available now
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241512
The Cygwin GNOME project has started to port the GNOME desktop to
Windows OS, using Cygwin as a porting tool and user environment.
Currently GNOME 1.4 almost done. The gnome-python package contains the
source packages for the Python bindings for GTK+ and GNOME (PyGTK and
PyGNOME, respectively). PyGTK is an extension module for Python that
provides access to the GTK+ widget set. Just about anything (within
reason) you can write in C with GTK+, you can write in Python with
PyGTK, but with all of Python's benefits. PyGNOME is an extension
module for Python that provides access to the base GNOME libraries, so
you have access to more widgets, a simple configuration interface, and
metadata support. Go start your "Rapid application development using
PyGTK " now. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/krishnakumar.html
ChangeLog --------- 1.4.1-3 First Cygwin port. 1.4.1-4 Add GtkGlArea
and GtkHTML module. You need cyggtkhtml.dll from gtkhtml package.
Change libdir to /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-python rathan than
/opt/gnome/lib/python2.2/site-packages.
Etherboot 5.1.4 (development) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241674
Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network
booting x86 platforms. It is also a coordination point for information
about free software related to network booting. Files rearranged due to
Itanium support. .lz* targets are now .z* targets.
Tiki 1.5 -Regulus- RC1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241687
Tiki is a CMS system based on a Wiki, it has all the features a regular
Wiki application has and a lot more. Tiki uses PHP and templates via
Smarty. A beta version of the 1.5 release, many new features added
including webmail, trackers, surveys and newsletters. Slideshows for
the wiki quick image uploading and more. Please help us by testing this
beta version before the official 1.5 release.
GStreamer 0.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241685
GStreamer team is proud to announce our 0.5.1 release. This release
features nice additions like a new ffmpeg based avi plugin and a much
improved threadless scheduler. GStreamer is a streaming-media
framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data.
Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound
processing to playing videos, and just about anything else
media-related. You find details <A
HREF="http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.5.1/";>here</A>.
JML 3.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=241688
The Java Modeling Language (JML) is a behavioral interface
specification language that can be used to specify the behavior of Java
modules. It combines the approaches of Eiffel and Larch, with some
elements of the refinement calculus. This is a bug fix release. The
main fix is to the jmlrac.bat script, but it also improves several
other small things.
Bossogg 0.9.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=240774
A client/server for creating an ogg vorbis player in your entertainment
center. First client is done in SDL with Truetype fonts so it's easy to
read. Uses PostgreSQL for lookups. Release 0.9.1 added XML
configuration files and reduced memory usage 60+%. Autoconf issues in
Debian and several bugs in the import scripts have also been fixed.
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